Labour took 32 out of 46 seats in the East Midlands; 45 out of 73 in London; 26 out of 29 in the North East; 51 out of 75 in the North West; and 33 out of 54 in Yorkshire.
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Having held the seat since 1984, Clwyd announced in 2014 that she would stand down in the 2015 general election, only to later row back on the decision.
The political map of all four nations of the United Kingdom will be redrawn so each seat will contain an average of 75,000 voters – and the number of MPs will be reduced from 650 to 600.
Chris Skidmore, minister for the constitution, said: “Equalising the size of constituencies in the Boundary Review will mean everyone’s vote will carry equal weight”. Plans for Scotland are due to be published on October 20. “The Conservative party has completely ignored the traditions and unique identities of each constituency”, said Sharma.
The other way MPs could lose their seats is if the new boundaries change the composition of their new seat – making it likely that a different party would win it. Currently, the number of constituents to a seat ranges from around 55,000 to 95,000, whereas, under the proposals every constituency in the United Kingdom would have between 71,031 and 78,507 voters.
The Conservatives are pursuing a policy of “No colleague left behind” for sitting MPs, according to party chairman Patrick McLoughlin. Since then, two million nationwide have registered.
The Conservative government attempted to reform constituency boundaries after being elected in 2010 but were prevented from doing so by their coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.
The story was based on data from Electoral Calculus, which provides electoral forecasts for wards and constituencies based on previous election results and recent opinion polls.
But Jon Ashworth, Labour’s shadow minister without portfolio, said: “The current proposals to redraw constituency boundaries are unfair, undemocratic and unacceptable”.
Labour is unhappy that the review is based on electoral register data from December 2015, which does not take into account more than two million people who signed up between then and June’s European Union referendum.
And George Osborne is in the same predicament as only 68 of the existing 533 constituencies are unchanged.
“These changes are not about fairness to voters, they are about what is best for the Tory party and they must not go ahead”.
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“He’s misleading himself if he thinks that we are heading towards an electoral victory”.
